Converting existing end user printers

You can have the Client automatically and silently convert end user's existing printer connections to the newly created TCP/IP printers. To convert the existing end user printers do the following:

Open Tools -> Settings -> Client.

Enable the option labeled Enable Printer Installer Client to convert end user's Microsoft printers to TCP/IP printers that have been imported into Printer Installer as TCP/IP printers.

If you would like to restrict the printer conversions to a subset of the computers with the client installed, check the box marked Enable Microsoft conversion item-level targeting. Then click Show Filter and add the users, computers, OUs, or IP address ranges you would like to have converted.

Login on a computer that has the Client installed and the Microsoft printers will be converted.

Linking multiple print server printers to a single printer in PI

If you have the same printer installed on multiple print servers, and would like the client on the workstations to automatically convert that printer to a direct IP printer regardless of which print server the printer is installed from, you can link a single printer in the Printer Installer database to the printer on all the print servers. To do so, perform the following:

In the left pane, browse to a print server and select the printer object you wish to link.

In the right pane, select the printer to be linked to.

Click the green arrow in-between the two panes.

The two printers will be linked, and conversions from the network printer to the direct IP printer will begin as clients check in.

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